Presenter
Dr. Jennifer Meddings
Dr. Jennifer Meddings graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School and completed a combined residency in Medicine-Pediatrics at the Ohio State University Medical Center and Nationwide Children's Hospital (previously known as Columbus Children's Hospital), and a chief residency in Internal Medicine. She later obtained her Master's in Health and Health Care Research at the University of Michigan. Her clinical interests include helping children and adults manage complex chronic illness, and prevention of healthcare-associated complications in complex patients requiring multiple medications, procedures and hospitalizations. She currently is Assistant Professor for Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases at the University of Michigan Health System and Research Scientist at the Ann Arbor VA Medical Center. Her research focuses on the impact of quality improvement programs (including pay-for-performance and patient safety initiatives) on the care of patients with chronic and complex illness. She is also on faculty for the Patient Safety Enhancement Program at the University of Michigan. Much of her recent work has focused on interventions to prevent hospital-acquired catheter-associated urinary tract infections, such as the use of reminder systems to prompt routine removal of unnecessary urinary catheters.